Statistics Undergraduate Research Seminar
Fall Semester 2005
Time: 4-5:00 pm Thursdays
Place: 1011 Evans Hall
Course: STAT 198, CCN 87495, 1 unit
Sep 8: Network Tomography
Bin Yu, Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley .
Sep 15: Minesweeper and other games
Elchanan Mossel, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
Sep 22: Actually, What is an Actuary?
Alice Tsai, Actuarial Pricing Manager, Esurance.
Sep 29: Considering Graduate School!
Colette E. Patt, Ph.D. , Director, Science Diversity Programs, UC Berkeley.
Oct 6: Quantitative Methods and Investment Management
Wilhelmine von Turk, Ph.D., , Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager, American Century
Oct 13: Death, dying, and other fun stuff
Steve Evans, Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, UC Berkeley.
Oct 20: Searching for Biomarkers of Radiation Exposure
David Nelson, Ph.D., Group Leader for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Livermore Microarray Center.
Oct 27: About Graduate School
Graduate Student Panel , Departments of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Nov 3: Identifying Payment Transaction Fraud in Real-Time
Edward McAvoy, Modeler , Visa
Nov 10: Learning gene regulatory networks or a graphical model structure with a parallel algorithm
Guillaume Obozinski, Departments of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Nov 17: Portfolio optimization problems
Peter Bartlett, Professor, Departments of Statistics and EECS, UC Berkeley.
Nov 24: Thanksgiving Holiday
No Seminar
Dec 1: TBA
Dec 8: TBA